assert os.path.split( os.path.abspath('\xe7\x8e\xb0' ) )[-1] == '\xe7\x8e\xb0'

# it should be true(no error) but py2.7 in window it's false
# and when linux it's ok
# os.path.split( os.path.abspath('\xe7\x8e\xb0' ) )[-1] == '\xe7\x8e'
# i guess it's a real bug , hope some one can resolve it
# i donot try py3.* , i donot know if it exists in 3.*

There may be an issue with the GetFullPathName system call.
Could you copy the result of these functions:

import sys, locale
print(locale.getdefaultlocale())
print(sys.getdefaultencoding())

thank you
os: win7 bit64
python: 2.7.3

>>> import sys,locale
>>> print(locale.getdefaultlocale())
('zh_CN', 'cp936')
>>> print(sys.getdefaultencoding())
ascii
>>>

祝愉快！

肖微

  2013年  月  日

2013/3/18 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <report@bugs.python.org>

>
> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment:
>
> There may be an issue with the GetFullPathName system call.
> Could you copy the result of these functions:
>
> import sys, locale
> print(locale.getdefaultlocale())
> print(sys.getdefaultencoding())
>
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The string '\xe7\x8e\xb0' is the utf-8 encoded version of u'现' (=u'\u73b0')

But your Windows system uses the cp936 code page to encode file names.
'\xe7\x8e\xb0' is invalid in this code page: the last character is an incomplete multibyte sequence, and is dropped by Windows when converting to a Unicode file name.
Windows automatic conversion functions work similar to this Python code (note the 'ignore' parameter):
>>> '\xe7\x8e\xb0'.decode('cp936', 'ignore').encode('cp936')
'\xe7\x8e'


'\xe7\x8e\xb0' is an invalid file name on your platform. You should either:

- use cp936 encoding in your application

- much better, use unicode file names everywhere:
  >>> os.path.abspath('\xe7\x8e\xb0'.decode('utf-8'))
  will return the expected result.


Python3 will emit a Warning when os.path.abspath() is called with a bytes string.